On Monday (March 21), two ladies were stabbed at a high school in southern Sweden, police said, adding that an 18-year-old student had been apprehended.
Following the incident at Malmo Latinskola, a secondary school in the heart of Malmo, the country’s third largest city, police claimed the two women, both in their 50s, “were school workers.”
According to local media, the suspected assailant phoned 911 to report his location and that he had laid down his weapon and admitted to killing two individuals.
He was reportedly equipped with a knife and an axe, according to Swedish media.
According to the police report, the guy was easily apprehended immediately after the first patrol arrived.
Police had first reported two persons hurt among the approximately 50 people in the school at the time of the incident earlier in the evening.
The two victims were “brought to the hospital, but their lives were not saved,” according to officials.
Around 5.15 p.m. (12.15 a.m. Tuesday Singapore time), police were informed, and the first patrol was allowed to enter the school.
The interior of the building is being inspected by heavily armed and prepared police.
Several hours later, the school was still roped off with police tape, and multiple police cars and ambulances were still on the site.
“we have had more information that points to a serious crime being committed and that violence was occurring in the school,” police spokesman Nils Norling told AFP after initial reports of shouting in the school.
“The first police patrol on site was able to arrive at the school and arrest a male suspect. They were also able to see that there were two injured people inside the school, ” he stated in front of the structure.
So yet, no motive has been identified.
Authorities believe the suspect acted alone after thoroughly checking the site and interrogating witnesses.
“A lot of work remains ahead of us to understand what happened and the motivation behind this appalling act,” Ms. Asa Nilsson, one of the officials in the investigation stated.
